Look closely and you can see one of her baby’s beaks sticking up from the nest. The nest was made in the leaf of an orange tree and would easily fit into half of a tennis ball.
No, he’s not wearing a necklace. But when he puffs his throat and the sun hits it just right, this is what you get!
So named because they store acorns in the tree holes they drill.
In Latin, lucifer means light-bearing; this bird gets his name from his shiny purple throat.
I prefer not to take pictures of birds at feeders, but the hummingbirds just weren’t cooperating enough for me to get them at flowers the day of our hummingbird safari.
A member of the warbler family, and a beauty!
Big name for a little bird.
This is either an adult female, or a juvenile male whose color hasn’t come in yet.
Pronounced “HEE-lah,” this desert native excavates holes in saguaro cacti. They use the holes for their nests, and then leave them so that other birds of the desert can use them afterwards.
No disrespect—the descriptor is there to distinguish this beauty from the larger American Goldfinch.